Archive for July, 2009

Rethinking Storage to Avoid Drowning in Data

For competitive and cost reasons, carriers have to leverage new technologies to more efficiently store and analyze data.


Industry Tightens Belt against Economic Ills

A pinch of cautious optimism and a dash of thoughtful spending appear to be the insurance IT spend diet du jour for the rest of 2009.


Rewriting the Rules

Amidst global economic instability, The Hartford has an opportunity to reinvent itself and rewrite the rules of competitive advantage.


Self-Service Portals: This Time, It’s Different

Insurers are finding self-service portals to be an important distribution channel and are taking steps to improve functionality.


Life Solutions



C’mon, Everybody’s Doing It

Social networking has infiltrated consumers’ lives, and insurers are using it to alter brand images.


Paper is for Napkins, Not Complex Software

Successful modernization projects leverage visualization to give stakeholders a way to interact with the proposed end state.


8 Characteristics of Highly Effective Vendors

While ranking their vended software products, 59% of insurers would definitely buy them again, 41% range from muted enthusiasm to outright regret. What could they have done differently?


An Enterprisewide Issue

Insurers need to add security as a dimension in each of the layers that comprise enterprise architecture.


AIG to Combine Consumer Finance Operations in Poland

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has entered into an agreement under which it will combine its consumer finance business in Poland, conducted through AIG Bank Polska S.A., into the Polish …